Das Jahr läuft um den Angelpunkt

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

L’année tourne autour du pivot

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

L’année tourne autour du pivot 
de la constance paysanne ; 
la Vierge et sainte Anne 
disent chacune leur mot. 

D’autres paroles s’ajoutent 
plus anciennes encor, — 
elles bénissent toutes 
et de la terre sort 

cette verdure soumise 
qui, par un long effort, 
donne la grappe prise 
entre nous et les morts.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 13 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "L'année tourne autour du pivot", op. 206 no. 3, published 1939 [ chorus ], from Quatrains Valaisans, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Year Turns on the Pivot", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Ivo Zandhuis

This text was added to the website: 2004-12-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 50

Das Jahr läuft um den Angelpunkt

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Das Jahr läuft um den Angelpunkt
ländlicher Beständigkeit;
die Jungfrau und Sankt Anna
tragen dazu bei.

Weiteres fügt sich an,
Älteres zudem, -
das Alles segnet,
und der Erd’ entsprießt

dies demutsvolle Grün,
das, durch lange Müh’,
der Traube Halt schenkt
zwischen uns und den Verstorbenen.

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Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 13
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This text was added to the website: 2016-05-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 45